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    Zume Pizza made headlines in 2016 when it became the first fully-automated-by-robots pizza delivery service; today, trucks are gone, robots are powered off and human employees are laid off. Other competitors continue to operate. ⁃ TN EditorZume Pizza, the Mountain View company that used robots to make its pizzas, has made its last delivery.
    In filings with the state Employment Development Department, Zume said it is cutting 172 jobs in Mountain View, and eliminating another 80 jobs at its
  • ‘Xenobots’: Scientists Use Stem Cells To Create First Living Robots

    ‘Xenobots’: Scientists Use Stem Cells To Create First Living Robots
    Xenobots represent a new life form and proof of concept. Initially, stem cells from frogs have been used, but stem cells from any living organism, including humans, could potentially achieve the same results. An ethical battle is certain. ⁃ TN EditorBe warned. If the rise of the robots comes to pass, the apocalypse may be a more squelchy affair than science fiction writers have prepared us for.
    Researchers in the US have created the first living machines by assembling cells from African cl
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    Renewables Were Never Meant To Power Modern Civilization
    To produce the same amount of energy, solar farms take 450 times more land than nuclear plants and wind turbines take 700 times more land than natural gas wells and associated environmental damage is immense. ⁃ TN EditorOver the last decade, journalists have held up Germany’s renewables energy transition, the Energiewende, as an environmental model for the world.
    “Many poor countries, once intent on building coal-fired power plants to bring electricity to their people, are disc

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